Friday, February 14, 2014
"Why I'm Getting Sick of Defending Obamacare"
This writer is known and respected in Washington, D.C.
For the record he is an advocate of the Obamacare idea...
For the record he is an advocate of the Obamacare idea...
On the National Journal website, Ron Fournier explains his current feelings and tells us why:
"The win-at-all-cost mentality helped create a culture in which a partisan-line vote was deemed sufficient for passing transcendent legislation. It spurred advisers to develop a dishonest talking point—'If you like your health plan, you'll be able to keep your health plan.' And political expediency led Obama to repeat the line, over and over and over again, when he knew, or should have known, it was false.
Defending the ACA became painfully harder when online insurance markets were launched from a multi-million-dollar website that didn't work, when autopsies on the administration's actions revealed an epidemic of incompetence that began in the Oval Office and ended with no accountability.
Then officials started fudging numbers and massaging facts to promote implementation, nothing illegal or even extraordinary for this era of spin. But they did more damage to the credibility of ACA advocates."
